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The Oklahoma Sooners have permanently dismissed starting quarterback Rhett Bomar, the Holiday Bowl MVP, and offensive lineman JD Quinn from the football team. The press release says they were paid for hours not worked at their summer job. Where was that job? Bomar had a summer job working at the Norman car dealership Big Red Sports and Imports.

BIG RED SPORTS & IMPORTS
418 N. INTERSTATE DRIVE   
Norman, OK 73069
1-800-654-4400 or 405-364-4400 Go get yo’self a great deal on a new buggy! yee haw! Go Sooners!

One report has Bomar earning $18,000 for a five hour a week job. If that sounds familiar it’s the same dealership that was involved in the Adrian Peterson car scandal earlier this spring. No doubt this is a crushing blow to the Sooners but the season still begins a month from today so practice must go on.
Apparently The investigation started six weeks ago. OU coaches found out Thursday. Bomar had already looked into transferring to a division II school because he knew what was coming.
NCAA penalties are pending not sure what yet but Bomar will most likely be banned from any NCAA division and the university could face a 1 year bowl ban.

Now that is what I call raising the minimum wage!

I have been staring at this computer too long and after reading this post “politics of greed” by Molly Ivans I need to back away from the keyboard.
This is another very tired catch phrase, I guess I can’t be too critical. The right effectively uses phrases like this to dis the left and it is very effective I might add.
Now this is when I wished that some brave liberal would logon and explain this liberal obsession of playa hating.
Conservative economic proposals to help business or reduce taxes are routinely denounced as “greed”.
The basic objection is that these policies will only help the rich, and why do they deserve any more than they already have? The very idea of the government adopting a policy to help people who are already rich is supposed to stir us to absolute moral indignation.
The same crap, right leaning folks propose tax cuts, left leaning types undoubtedly will come out against it explaining that they oppose the tax cut because it would cut taxes for the rich more than it would cut taxes for the poor.
The reply might be I guess that any significant tax cut will inevitably reduce taxes for the rich more than it does for the poor, for the simple reason that the rich pay more taxes than the poor do. The poorest people pay no taxes at all.
I’m not a fucken tax man but it makes sense to me.
But this is beside the point. The real answer to this objection is to say, Duh … what? You are telling me that I should oppose a proposed policy, not because it will harm me, but because it will benefit someone else more than it benefits me? Do liberals really think that I am so small-minded, that I not only begrudge any benefit to my fellow human beings, but that indeed I would prefer to suffer myself rather than see my neighbor prosper?
Let’s take the extreme case: Suppose a proposed policy would help my neighbor a great deal, but do absolutely nothing for me. I might try to have it changed so I benefit also. But why in the world should I oppose it, if it does me no harm? That is simply jealousy, envy, and spite, or as they say in the hood Playa Hatin!

I once heard a story (e-mail spam) about a man who finds a magic lamp with a genii inside. The genii tells him that he can have anything he wants, but whatever he wishes for, his neighbor will get double. The man thinks a moment and replies “Make me blind in one eye”. I guess the man in the story is a liberal Democrat, for that appears to be their philosophy.
No policy can be so carefully designed that every single person in the country receives exactly the same benefit from it.
The selfish person says, “If I benefit, I don’t care what happens to anyone else.”
The pragmatist says, “Overall, does it do more good than harm?”
The humanitarian says, “Does it help as many people as possible? I can live with some loss to myself if it does enough good for others.”
But the liberal democrat says, “I’m for it as long as it hurts someone else more than it hurts me.”
If conservatives are guilty of a politics of greed, it is a curious kind of greed. It is a greed that says, “Let’s do things that make us all richer.” What liberals offer as the morally superior alternative is a politics of envy: “I don’t care what happens to me, as long as my neighbor suffers.”
This is why I can’t take liberals seriously.
I generally like Ivans, I got the chance to hear her speak a couple of years ago.
Is this going to be some trend by liberals to trot out the “GREED” tag now?
I can see the commercials now, poor New Orleans black folks in front of the Superdome, with the caption “if the gubment would have just raised that minimum wage, these people would have had the means to escape.”  
I am a broke ass black dude, I would love to be making more money, but I sure as hell don’t go around playing the Negro pity card.
My income is right at the national average, which is about jack. But my job is cool and I’m content. But I’m not making 50, 80 100k because I did not make the sacrifices needed to increase my earning potential.
Mrs. Sniff and I could move to the East coast and easily double Mrs. Sniff triple her salary. But satisfaction with our jobs, lifestyle has our income slotted.
I’m not trying to keep up with the Jonses. I watched them on Oprah and those motherfuckers are $170,000 in debt.       
The thing about liberals (Ivans addresses this in the article) is that they keep bitching and moaning about the minimum wage. What motherfucker do you know that is making $5.15 an hour!? Someone please explain how raising the minimum wage benefits anybody.
Any moron would understand that if a business wants to succeed, you want quality people and you would think they are apt to pay them a decent salary to keep them.
If you have (adults) who are milling around minimum wage territory, that is their fucken problem. Get another job, or take yo ass go back to school.
I love how liberal want to “feel” like they have compassion. So I guess saying you are for raising the minimum wage like jackass Kerry you are compassionate.
This is just another example of how liberal compassion is such utter bullshit. 

 
From kennel club to bean fest, Homeland Security list has many questionable locations.
By DAVE HELLING
The Kansas City Star

The Truman Sports Complex and Worlds of Fun are on the list. So is the water plant, the Kansas State Fair and Kansas Speedway.
Bannister Mall was on it once, but came off.
The “list” is a database of more than 77,000 potential terror targets, compiled by the Department of Homeland Security. It includes hospitals, nuclear power plants — and golf courses, petting zoos, and swimming pools.
This week the inspector general of the Homeland Security Department said the list, known as the National Asset database, is seriously flawed. In a 54-page study, Richard Skinner said the list has so many questionable targets it’s hard to sort out actual threats, and to spend money in the right places.
“Every possible target is not going to rise to the level of national significance,” the report says. “Ambiguity … could lead to inefficient use of limited homeland security resources.”

The report included examples of what it calls “curious” places on the target list:

•A check-cashing location

•A bean fest

•A yacht-repair business

•An ice cream parlor

•A casket company

•A flea market

•A “kennel club and poker room”

States submitted the sites to the department beginning in 2003. But, the study found, states used dramatically different standards for submitting potential targets: Indiana claimed 8,591 “critical infrastructure” assets, more than twice as many as California and four times as many as Ohio.
An Indiana official said Wednesday the state would review its list.
Washington state listed more national-monument targets than Washington, D.C. Virginia listed more than 2,000 schools, the report found; eight states listed none.
Critics of the Homeland Security Department, especially lawmakers from New York, said they were worried the list could lead to misspent terror funds.
But the department said Wednesday the database is a raw collection of information sent in by the states, and it is not the only tool it uses to spend money.
“It’s not our list,” said spokesman Jarrod Agen. “We look at it, then pull the information we need from it” for a list of high-profile terror targets.
“Down the line,” he said, “we may need information about theme parks, and zoos, and (the list) is worth keeping as a reference tool.”
The report says Kansas has 983 possible targets; Missouri, 684. It does not specifically mention any sites in either state, although the report says a Nestle Purina pet food plant and a Bass Pro Shop are on the list. Both companies are based in Missouri.
Officials in both states declined a request from The Star to examine the list, claiming the information is secret.
“There’s no way a reporter can see it,” said Terri Durdaller of the Missouri Department of Public Safety.
Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting is the Kansas director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. “I’ve looked over our list item by item, and we don’t have anything in here like that,” he said, referring to food shops and golf courses.
“We’re a state with levees and dams, with bridges and pipelines that crisscross the state,” he said. “I’m comfortable with our list.”
Apparently, it includes no large balls of twine. Other states, however, tossed in a groundhog zoo, a kangaroo conservation center, “a beach at the end of (a) street,” a “Trees of Mystery,” a bourbon fest and a mule day parade.
The Kansas City list is maintained by the Police Department, emergency management officials said. The department declined to release it.
“We don’t think it’s a public record,” said Capt. Rich Lockhart.
Those who have seen the list say it contains obvious infrastructure, like water plants and electricity generating stations, as well as large tourist attractions such as Worlds of Fun and the Truman Sports Complex.
“Anybody with common sense can identify major portions of critical infrastructure for Kansas City,” said D.A. Christian, Kansas City emergency preparedness director.
Bannister Mall was taken off the list after local officials told the government it was not a significant target.
The national study suggests four improvements to the database, including removing “extremely insignificant” assets.
The Homeland Security Department said it would take a look at the recommendations, but said funding shortfalls might make a thorough review difficult.

Homeland Security Grants to U.S. States: 2005 and 2006

Homeland Security Grants to Urban Areas: 2005 and 2006

Progress in Developing the National Asset Database | Office of Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security